Funeral Spice
'I don't want to be emotional but this is one of the greatest moments of my life," declared Nelson Mandela upon meeting the Spice Girls in 1997. So I like to think he would have appreciated the livelier aspects of his funeral observances. The Prince of Wales, who was also present on that occasion in Johannesburg, agreed with Mandela on the significance of their summit with the girls: "It is the second-greatest moment in my life," he said. "The greatest was when I met them the first time." His Royal Highness and at least two Spice Girls (reports are unclear) attended this week's service in Soweto, and I'm sure it was at least the third-greatest moment in all of their lives. Don't ask me where the other Spice Girls were. It is a melancholy reflection that the Spice Girls' delegation was half the size of Canada's, which flew in no fewer than four Canadian prime ministers, which is rather more Canadian prime ministers than one normally needs to make the party go with a swing. |
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(Transcript) Here's the transcript from Mark's recent appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show with guest host host Arthur Brooks Making Spirits BrightIt's the Christmas Season at SteynOnline!
We've everything for the Steyn fan in your family this Christmas, from "A Marshmallow World" to the post-American world to a Steynamite night live on stage. Don't forget Mark & Jessica's Christmas album with almost an hour of great seasonal music - and it's an even better bargain when you buy it with The Mark Steyn Christmas Show, two hours of live music and great conversation with Martha Stewart, Tim Rice and Mark's other guests. And that's just the start! We've the paperback edition of Steyn's latest international bestseller After America, and all Mark's other books. We've our stylish Viva Steyn! shirts for men and women, and lots of other SteynOnline tees, sweats and golf shirts. We've the SteynOnline iPhone cases, plus mugs and other gifts. And, from Mark's cover version of Mariah Carey to his very own seasonal song, all the music your Christmas party needs, via CD or digital download. And don't forget, there are savings galore if you buy Mark's books and other gifts as part of our exclusive SteynOnline holiday specials! Plus: If you live in the south-eastern United States, give the gift of Mark live and in person this Christmas season. Early in the New Year, he'll be making a Steynamite snowbird tour across Florida, from Jacksonville to St Petersburg to Miami. Tickets for all shows are on sale right now, and they're a perfect gift for Steyn fans who know him from print and broadcasting but have never seen him live on stage. More details here.
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(Audio) Here's the podcast from Michael Graham's show today. Mark joins at the top of the second hour. Steyn Live!Steyn in Florida - Tickets on Sale Now!
Join Mark for a week of pure Steynamite in the Sunshine State as he flies south for a snowbird tour across Florida this February. Tickets go on sale this morning - Wednesday December 4th - and they make a great Christmas gift for the Steyn fan in your family. If you only know Mark from print, TV and radio, you're in for a treat: There's nothing quite like joining Steyn for an evening of "the usual blend of comedy and terror". "At one point, I just lost it. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't breathe," said Catherine Sims, after seeing Mark at Hillsdale College. "The best night of my entire life," declared satisfied customer M Craig Williams after catching Steynamite in Toronto. This is Mark's first statewide tour of Florida, and, as with last year's sell-out tour of Australia, you won't want to leave it too late to book seats. Tickets are available direct from the theatres: February 9th - Jacksonville: Symphony Hall at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts February 10th - St Petersburg: The Mahaffey Theatre February 11th - Ft Pierce: The Sunrise Theatre February 12th - Ft Myers: The Barbara Mann Performing Arts Hall February 13th - Miami: The Olympia Theatre at Gusman Center See you in the Sunshine State for Steynamite in Florida! Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
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My Congresswoman attempts to take a question Steyn's Song of the WeekI'll Be Home For Christmas
If you had to pin a precise date to the dawn of the Golden Age of American Christmas Songs, it would probably be December 1942. Irving Berlin had written "White Christmas" a couple of years earlier, and was reasonably confident about it. But, as canny as he was, he didn't foresee how the song would be transformed by a single event: Pearl Harbor. Twelve months after the attack, American servicemen were far away in the south Pacific and contemplating their first Christmas at war, under glorious tropical skies that only made home seem even more distant. "White Christmas" isn't a song about snow, it's a song about home. And Berlin wasn't the only songwriter to understand there was a huge audience for that at a time when most families had at least one empty chair round the Christmas table... In the CornerQuivering in Place
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Obamacare goes phishing Steyn on AmericaThe Post-Work Economy
One consequence of the botched launch of Obamacare is that it has, judging from his plummeting numbers with "Millennials," diminished Barack Obama's cool. It's not merely that the website isn't state-of-the-art but that the art it's flailing to be state of is that of the mid-20th-century social program. The emperor has hipster garb, but underneath he's just another Commissar Squaresville... Happy WarriorThose Who Can't, Govern
For much of last year, a standard trope of President Obama's speechwriters was that there were certain things only government could do. "That's how we built this country — together," he declared. "We constructed railroads and highways, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. We did those things together." As some of us pointed out, for the cost of Obama's 2009 stimulus bill alone, you could have built 1,567 Golden Gate Bridges... |
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